Macadamia aff. integrifolia Maiden & Betche
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Haslemere Lane, Umwinsidale
Photo: Bart Wursten
Haslemere Lane, Umwinsidale
Photo: Bart Wursten
Haslemere Lane, Umwinsidale
Photo: Bart Wursten
Haslemere Lane, Umwinsidale
Photo: Bart Wursten
Haslemere Lane, Umwinsidale
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Common names:
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Frequency:
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Rare |
Status:
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Introduced |
Description:
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Small evergreen tree, cultivated for its edible nuts and sometimes naturalised. Leaves petiolate, whorled, oblanceolate to narrowly oblong; margin wavy, entire or with spaced sharp teeth, particularly on young plants. Flowers in dense racemes, white. Fruit subspherical, 25-35 mm long, with a pointed tip. |
Notes:
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Note: Two species are cultivated, M. integrifolia and M. tetraphylla L.A.S. Johnson. The species readily hybridise, even in nature, and nowadays many specimens are hybrids. M. tetraphylla has become rare in the wild, due to this. |
Derivation of specific name:
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integrifolia: with entire leaves, referring to the leaf margin, although some leaves, particularly on young plants are toothed. |
Habitat:
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Sometimes escaping in rocky miombo woodland or in forest |
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Worldwide distribution:
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Native to south-eastern Queensland, Australia |
Zimbabwe distribution:
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C,E |
Growth form(s):
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Tree.
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Endemic status:
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Red data list status:
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Insects associated with this species:
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Mesogenea varians (Larval foodplant)
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Spot characters:
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Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: |
Wednesday 3 February 2010 |
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Macadamia aff. integrifolia
Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-21
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M.
(2021).
Flora of Zimbabwe: Species information: Macadamia aff. integrifolia. https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=162350, retrieved 16 January 2021
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